NIH publishes plan to drive Gold Standard Science

NIH publishes plan to drive Gold Standard Science
NIH press release; by Jay Bhattacharya; 8/25
I am pleased to announce the release of NIH’s new plan to promote gold standard science across all agency activities. Building on NIH’s longstanding commitment to scientific integrity, this forward-looking plan incorporates the nine, interlocking tenets of gold standard science adopted by the U.S. Government and aligns with the Department of Health and Human Services’ framework for achieving these principles... Gold Standard of Science is:

• Reproducible
• Transparent
• Communicative of error and uncertainty
• Collaborative and interdisciplinary
• Skeptical of its findings and assumptions
• Structured for falsifiability of hypotheses
• Subject to unbiased peer review
• Accepting of negative results as positive outcomes
• Without conflicts of interest